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[Vamsee🇮🇳 @Vamsee9002]

Keep calm and trust Modi.

[Trains of India 🇮🇳 @trainwalebhaiya]

2026 Could Become a Historic Year for Indian Railways 🇮🇳🚆

If the current trend continues, Indian Railways is on track to record its first ever single-digit consequential train accidents in its 173-year history.

[Halley @halleyji]

Heard a reference to this story from Katha Sarit Sagara in a recent public lecture by Puri Shankaracharya in the context of machine reliant civilization.

Grok seems to have done a decent job.

Question:
There is a story in Katha Sarit Sagara about a lonely man sorrounded by yantras or machines. Can you help me identify that story

Grok answer:

The story is that of the architect/carpenter Rajyadhara (also spelled Rājyadhara) and the mechanical city of Hemapura (or the “machine city” / “robot city”), found in the Kathāsaritsāgara (Ocean of the Streams of Story) by Somadeva.

It appears in the Ratnaprabhā-lambaka (Book VII, around the section involving Karpūrikā / the story related to Naravāhanadatta’s quest for Karpūrikā).

Brief outline of the relevant episode

Prince Naravāhanadatta (while searching for a woman from a dream, Karpūrikā) arrives with his companion at Hemapura. The city appears fully populated—shops, streets, servants, men and women going about their activities—but everything is silent and mechanical. All the “inhabitants” are yantras (mechanical automata / robots).

He reaches the palace and finds the only living human being there: a man seated on a throne like a king. This man is Rajyadhara. He is described as controlling and being served by the entire city of mechanical beings, likened to a soul presiding over a body and its senses.

Rajyadhara explains his background:

He and his elder brother Prāṇadhara were skilled architects/carpenters from Kāñcīpura (under a king named Bahubala or Mahābala).

Through a series of events (involving their mechanical skills, intrigue, and flight), the younger brother ends up in the deserted city of Hemapura.

Using his knowledge of yantras, he populates the abandoned place with mechanical people, animals, and servants, creating a fully functioning automated city that he alone inhabits and rules.

He later helps the prince with a mechanical flying vehicle (another yantra) to continue his journey.

This is the episode that matches the description of a lonely man surrounded by yantras/machines. It is one of the best-known references in the text to sophisticated mechanical automata (alongside other mentions such as Somaprabhā’s mechanical dolls/toys).

Commentators and scholars (including notes in translations like Tawney/Penzer’s Ocean of Story and later studies) frequently highlight this “city of machines” as a striking example of medieval Indian imagination regarding automation.

Story link here: https://t.co/qZ5qSu4I7a

[India Plus @india_plus_]

🚨 Big Shift : India's private sector has overtaken the government in R&D spending for the first time,

Contributing 51.8% of the record ₹2.45 lakh crore invested in research and development in FY24.

Follow @india_plus_

[Shashank Mattoo @MattooShashank]

"Some people are surprised India and China are doing well. But for 1800 of the last 2000 years, the two largest global economies were always India and China. So their return is not a surprising phenomenon," says ex-Singapore Ambassador Mahbubani

[India_AllSports @India_AllSports]

STOP PRESS!

𝐀𝐍𝐀𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐒𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐇 𝐂𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐒 𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐘! 🇮🇳

18 yr old becomes the FIRST EVER Indian to be crowned World Junior Squash CHAMPION! 🏆

Top seed beat Egypt's Ruqayya Salem (2nd seed) 3-0 in Final.

#Squash

[Nux @mherlihy0816]

My knowledge of Greek history is my Archimedes heel.

[Parimal @Fintech03]

To appreciate the scale of what India's youth just pulled off this month, we have to look at the cumulative math of the country's Olympiad history. What these students achieved in a single 7 day window matches what used to take the nation decades to accumulate in its early participation yrs:

- : India made its debut at the International Physics Olympiad in 1998. It took India 7 consecutive yrs of participation (from 1998 to 2004) to secure a cumulative total of 5 Gold Medals. This month, a single batch of 5 Indian students walked into Colombia & bagged 5 Gold Medals in 1 shot.

- India 1st debuted at the International Chemistry Olympiad 27 yrs ago in 1999. Throughout ~3 decades of competing, India had never managed a perfect all gold sweep. The 2026 team secured 4 Gold Medals, maintaining a 100% gold conversion rate. This single week delivered a historic, unmatched clean sweep that eluded the country for 27 yrs.

- India began participating in the International Mathematical Olympiad in 1989. It took the country 9 yrs of competing just to collect a handful of gold medals, often struggling against institutional hurdles & lacking proper training ecosystems. This month team added 2 Gold Medals to the national tally, ranking World No. 7 globally in 1 of the most brutal competitive brackets on earth.

- India made its debut at the International Biology Olympiad back in 2000. In the initial yrs of the country's participation, getting even a single gold medal took massive coordination. This month, at Vilnius, Lithuania, the 4 member Indian contingent hit a flawless 100% medal conversion rate, with Bhavyaa Gunwal securing a hard-fought Gold, alongside 3 Silvers.

These 12 golds proved that the real future of the country is not being written by noisy political commentators. Jai Hind!

[wonder woman 🗡️ @RohiSRH]

Telugu isn't just a language ,it's music in words. 🫶❤️

[HASHIRAMA @Thesage_lord]

I had one friend like you who used to speak such nonsense

One day he was speaking such nonsense in a local train them some transgender people Heard him and said " You belongs to our group and then they dragged him with them

We never saw him again

[HBCSE @HBCSE_TIFR]

Another Golden Sweep by India as our Chemistry team bags 4 Gold medals securing Rank #1 (jointly with China, Vietnam, and Individual Participant (Russia)) at the 58th International Chemistry Olympiad, Uzbekistan (https://t.co/ZCxapjbtvG).
1/5

[HBCSE @HBCSE_TIFR]

🇮🇳GOLDEN SWEEP FOR INDIA 🏆

All 5 Indian students win GOLD at the 56 International Physics Olympiad (IPhO) 2026 in Bucaramanga, Colombia -placing India at Rank #1 in the world (jointly with China, Kazakhstan, Russia, South Korea & Taiwan) among 381 students from 87 countries 1/5

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: U.S. employers have reportedly been told to fire hundreds of thousands of immigrant workers as their temporary legal status & work permits expire.

[Himanta Biswa Sarma @himantabiswa]

Guwahati will soon be wireless!

A ₹2,500cr project will be undertaken to take all overhead power lines underground.

#AssamCabinet2026

[Sunanda Vashisht @sunandavashisht]

An MOU signed in Versailles had to collapse. What did you all expect?

[Nandan @_HealthZwealth]

Major Expansion in strategic petroleum reserves..

To increase storage cover from 9.5 days to 40 days.

Much needed capex 👍👍

[Sanjay Srivastava @Sanjay_Sriv]

A ₹2 trillion adrenaline shot for India's transit corridors is officially locked in.

​🎯 The Blueprint: 10,000 kilometers of high-speed bypasses designed to fuel the next chapter of our economic growth.

India is making strategic shift in optimizing its highway networks.

Here are the fast facts on the rollout through FY31:
•​ ₹2,00,000 Crore: The total capital layout for the 5-year plan.

• 500 Cities: Expansion of the network footprint to heavily include smaller tier-II and tier-III congestion hotspots.

•​ 100-120 KMPH: Target design speed maintained for both freight and passenger vehicles.

•​ 4-Lane Minimum: Standard requirement for the new access-controlled bypass corridors.

•​61% Baseline: Optimizing the massive 146,572 km network built since 2014 by removing its biggest bottlenecks.

​The Bottom Line:
Building expansive highways is only half the battle; preventing them from choking as they hit urban centers is the other critical half being solved now.

This targeted infrastructure push ensures seamless freight movement, driving down logistics costs and rocketing economic productivity.
​#IndiaInfra #Logistics #HighwayDevelopment #Growth
@MORTHIndia @OfficeOfNG

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[Sidhant Sibal @sidhant]

BREAKING: India dispatches 2 IAF C-17 planes carrying field hospital, medical supplies, BHISHM Cubes to quake hit Venezuela.

Detailed story coming shortly.

[Runtime @RuntimeBRT]

Indian students are DIYing a semiconductor fab at IIT Bombay.

In just 10 months they've built:

1. A DLP-based lithography machine.
2. A tube furnace to oxidise silicon.
3. A DC plasma sputter.

Total cost: ₹30 lakh.

Here's a rare behind-the-scenes look at HackerFab IITB.

[Arjun @arjuna_uvaacha]

Bhagwan Shiva having his one banger line at the end of vishnu Sahasranamam is such an elite thing

[The Seeker @TheSeeker268]

India just launched a flagship scheme to recruit top Indian-origin researchers living abroad and bring them back to India to conduct high impact, cutting-edge research. The scheme offers research grants, relocation support, and access to advanced research infrastructure.

📅 Last Date: July 15, 2026